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YWN Coffee Room Nightly D’Var Torah (featuring: JayMatt19 )

Please no.

:o) – not to worry. YW Moderator-72

i believe i just put in a nice little d’var Torah. i may be the only girl on this thread, but that doesn’t mean i cant fill in every now and then 🙂

moish, the more the merrier. i wanna hear what you havta say

Hey BYM I posted a few dvar torahs on here and I’m a girl!! and I didn’t google them!! (Explains why they weren’t good and they were short lol)

Just heard this one in a lecture by Rabbi Rietti, while discussing expectations in relationships.

“Asay licha Rav, kinei licha chaver, VeHevai dan es kol haadom lkaf zchos.”

Make yourself a teacher, buy yourself a friend and judge each person favorably.

What does the last piece of advice, judging favorably, have to do with the getting yourself a teacher and friend?

Because if we look for an absolutely perfect teacher, someone who will never be anything less than perfectly sensitive to me, and if we search for a friend who will never make a mistake in this friendship, then we will never find ourselves a teacher or friend. People are humans; we are inherently not perfect. Therefore, don’t expect perfection in any relationship. Rather, when he/she makes a mistake – judge them favorably, realize they are humans.

yay the week’s devar torah schedule is filled!!! way to go cr!!!

??????? ????????? ????????. ??????? ?????????????? ??????????:

He declares His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances unto Israel.

?? ???? ??? ????? ????. ?????????????? ???? ????????.

He has not dealt so with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them.

Two Pshatim on the above p’sukim

Maharsha:

The gemarra on Chagiga (13a) says ” ???? ??? ??? ??? ?????? ???? ???? <?????

??????> ????? (?????? ???) ?? ??? ?? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ?????

Rav Ami states, one does not teach Torah to a non-Jew, as it says: ?? ???? ??? ????? ????. ?????????????? ???? ????????.”

Tosfos there says “We learn that the non-Jew who is Osek B’Torah is deserving of death. Yet they have 7 mitzvos they are commanded to do. That there is a mitzva to give over to them.” This is an apparent contradiction.

There is no contradiction. ??? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ??????. The word ?????? means giving over with the reason, meaning and secrets (sod) of the mitzvos. This is forbidden even within the teaching of the 7 Bnei Noach Mitzvos.

Rebbi Ami made the ???? from what we say in davening. ??????? ????????? ????????.

and also the ??????? ?????????????? (reasons behind them) ?????????? (To the Jews). Nevertheless ?? ???? ??? ????? ????, even ?????????????? (those mitzvos that they have) ???? ???????? it is forbidden to teach them the reasons and secrets (sod) behind them.

This shows us that there is in fact no contradiction.

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R’ Chaim M’Vilozon:

The goyim also have a mitzva also have a mitzva to set up a court system. However, they were not given instruction and mitzvos as to how to do it. They need to set it up using wisdom and common sense. And were they to act in a contrary manner, they would be chayav death. Jews, however, have been given detailed instruction how to set up their courts, and how to judge.

This is what it means ??????? ????????? ????????. ??????? ?????????????? ??????????, Jews are commanded to judge based upon the laws and statutes provided by the Torah…?? ???? ??? ????? ????. ?????????????? ???? ????????, he did not do this to the goyim, as they need to utilize their wisdom and common sense when setting up their courts.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these two pshatim on these two p’sukim we say every Shachris

Curious, very nice.

mod72: i’m sorry, i couldn’t post much this week, i’ll try to make it up to you.$

yashrus, the CR closes eventually? where’s your dvar torah? it better be a good one.

moish01: he’s on for thursday!!! so we’ll give him a few hours still[the guys in israel ya know]!!!

A conversation in another thread got me to open a sefer. I wanted to share what I found.

Rav Pam (in the Atara L’Melech) has a whole thing on Shidduchim. In it he has a section in “looks”

R’ Bechaye says one should not marry someone for their looks. On this, Rabbanim ask: But we see in Beraishis that the Imahos were praised for their beauty! By Rivka it says “??? ???? ???” and by Rochel it says “????, ????, ???-???, ???? ????” Yet, on the other hand, Shlomo HaMelech writes ??? ???, ???? ????!

R’ Pam says answers the apparent contradiction by stating that beauty is the equivalent to the number zero. On its own, it is valueless. However, when preceded by a one or a two, it enlarges the number immensely. ??? ???, ???? ????: ??? ????-?’, ??? ?????. When there is ????-?’ that is like having a one. and when the ???? ???? is there, then a zero is placed after the one, enlarging the number, giving it greater importance.

By an esrog, everyone knows there is a din of Hiddur. But that is not the main characteristic. The main characteristic should be nikius, cleanliness. So too in shidduchim (R’ Pam states specifically by women, could be since the shiur was to bochrim) the main Ma’alah (characteristic) to look for is nikius ha’daas and nikius ha’nefesh (a straight person with straight thoughts, hashkafos) as well as middos straight, and pure. Beauty is just an additional plus.

(written at 2:25am in Yerushalayim, but I could not go to sleep without posting this vort [but I can go to sleep without proofreading, so I apologize in advance]. Yashrus, hope to read your contribution after I daven Shachris)

Thursday Night Dvar Torah

Shabbos…shabbos…shabbos…why is it shabbos is me”en olam habba? Why is it considered a gift from hashem? Whats so special about not working, or davening more…? The noam elimelech writes that when betzalel built the mishkan he needed to be a big “kabbalist”. Why? He answers with the famous ramban that the mishkan is domeh to the world. And that the way hashem created the world was with all gasgmius, but b/c we needed a hacha timtza to get to ruchnius and be left with gashmius he gave us shabbos. So to by betzalel the mishkan couldent be all gashmius so he needed to be a “kabbalist” to instill (wtvr that means) kedusha in the mishkan. In the sefer hayitzirah it is written that the world was created with 39 peulos of tevah, 39 laws of what hishtadlus we have to do on this world. On shabbos it is assur to do any of these, even the slightest thing for fear of the gashmius infringing. We learn more, daven more, b/c on shabbos we no longer have the sor mera then aseh tov just the aseh tov.

B/c just like in olam habba all we need to do is learn, and not have to worry about the gashmius so to on shabbos hashem gives us a day of dviekus of davening and learning and not have to worry about the peulos of this world. If were not feeling shabbos its b/c were involved with weekday matters. Sports, bussiness, or anything which is nisht shabbos geret. The more we let go of these matters the more we will feel shabbos, b/c it truley is gift. And it would be a shame to ignore a gift that comes aroung everyweek, and the gift which is also domeh to the purpose of life. A guten shabbos!

(make me perm please)

JayMatt19: wow that was great R’JayMatt19!!! shkoyach!!! for the record i didn’t find any mistakes!!! Have a great shobbos!!!

yashrus20: R’ Yashrus, Rav Ha’CR Board, that was outstanding!!! A guten shabbos to you too!!!

mod72: time to clear the board & make yashrus20 to perm!!!

asdfghjkl: >>for the record i didn’t find any mistakes!!! Have a great shobbos!!!<<

You did not look hard enough. “R’ Pam says answers the apparent contradiction”

The word “says” should not be there. Oh, well.

Good Shabbos everyone

good shabbos R’ JayMatt, and harav hagaon yashrus.$

Mussar HaTorah

20 Shevat, 5769 Vol. 10, No. 17 Parashas Yisro

chofetzchaim: thanx, and good shabbos.$

Shabbos Drasha: Parshas Yisro

Our minds are like a basket to absorb certain ideas. If a person does not have the right basket for a certain idea it wizzes right by. The idea your about to read is one that will need a change in thought process. The need to think “outside the box”. Why? b/c we have superficial minds that cannot comprehend such extreme ideas, but for once listen and understand and then decide what to do. For if it at least enters the basket then at least you can get a better look at what you may be accepting.

In the previous parshios klal yisroel wittnesed many miracles. They were so great that a shifcha by krias yam suf saw more than yichezkel ben buzzi saw, where talking more revealing than the ma”asa merkava itself. But we notice also a trend in the reaction of klal yisroel to all the gashmiasdik obstacles in their way. Their reaction is one of fear, one of isolation and the need for help. Klal Yisroel just witnessed amazing miracles and hashem promised them he would cont. wonders to ultimately bring them to mamod har sinai. Why then were they alway camplaining, why then did they make and worship the eigel hazahav??

Ill answer through another question: Famous question why did hashem not let klal yisroel go derech plishtim, it would have taken them right to eretz yisroel. Why were they taken in such a round about way? Hashem realized, yes theyd seen all amazing miracles, but hashem still created a teva and you still have bechira and as long as the connection bet. you and hashem insnt in you your doomed to fall no matter what youve seen. Ergo, being that klal yisroel hadnt yet seen the torah and learnt it they would have as soon as they entered israel gon to this vinyard this one to that field and get on with the rest of their lives. Hashem made them go through the desert and learn the torah for forty yrs straight. They woke up heard shiur, in the afternoon again heard shuir and then chazra…They learnt it so much that it was nivlugh b’aivarim! It was seeping through their limbs, their bones! All the time im hearing of an amazing miracle that took place. Emails being passed around, “AMAZING STORY THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR

LIFE”. The problem is it does….but for how long? A week if your lucky. The idea is that the torah has to be you, your mitzius has to be torah, otherwise teva is like gravity if you arent constintley pushing up yuor doomed to fall. Klal yiroel who had 49 day of climbing the depths of kedusha and imersion couldent withstand their nisyonos with out constant limud torah all the more so we who are constantley involed with hevel havalim, and havent seen those miracles….how are we going to withstand our nisyonos? Answer is simple, hashem gave us a tool: The Torah. There is no other. You can look at things and through them appreciate the torahs truth and widom but the central tool is the torah. Logicaly hashem wouldnt make it so easy that when we see a miracle that we no longer have the same bechira, rather the miracle is a gift as a BOOST to come to the realization or god and as a result learn his ways and his path of truth.

Remember at everypoint in a persons life a human being has bechirah, it is the only thing that makes us human. At any moment we can choose wtvr our hearts desire. First step is to think about life, and hold nothing back. Rem. you only get one chance to live why not find out the best way to live it. Youl say but my avodas hashem is good enough….some times just good enough in your one time life just isnt good enough.

By: someone who cares. (i really do, and it is something that bothers me not from a critical view but a worrysome view)

mod72: time to clear the board & keep wednesday open!!! maybe we could get some new faces to do one this week???!!!!

yashrus: great vort. The way I heard it is that if you get something that you don’t work on, it has no affect on you. The telling thing was that the shifcha saw all that stuff and remained

>>Please put me down for Wednesday this coming week, I have a yarzheit

you have it. The Neshoma should have an aliyah. YW-Moderator-72 <<

So why am I not listed on the front page.

I forgot. You’re listed now – thanks for the reminder. YW Moderator-72

Mishpatim

One of the longest Torah portions, containing 23 positive commandments and 30 negative precepts. Included are laws regarding: the Hebrew manservant and maidservant, manslaughter, murder, injuring a parent, kidnapping, cursing a parent, personal injury, penalty for killing a slave, personal damages, injury to slaves, categories of damages and compensatory restitution, culpability for personal property damage, seduction, occult practices, idolatry, oppression of widows, children and orphans.

The parsha continues with the laws of: lending money, not cursing judges or leaders, tithes, first-born sons, justice, returning strayed animals, assisting the unloading of an animal fallen under its load, Sabbatical year, Shabbos, the Three Festivals (Pesach, Shavuos & Succos).

Mishpatim concludes with the promise from Hashem to lead us into the Land of Israel, safeguard our journey, ensure the demise of our enemies and guarantee our safety in the land — if we uphold the Torah and do the Mitzvos. Moshe makes preparations for himself and for the people and then ascends Har Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments.

Bava Basra 10a

Turnusrufus, the rasha, asked Rabbi Akiva, “If your God loves the poor, why doesn’t he support them?”

“In order that we should be saved from Gehennom by giving them charity,” replied Rabbi Akiva.

“Just the opposite,” said Turnusrufus. “This will make you deserve Gehennom. I will give you a parable. A mortal king grew angry at his servant. The king had the servant bound in prison and ordered that no one give him food or drink. A certain man went and gave him food. When the king hears about this how will he react? Won’t he be angry? And you are called servants, as it is stated, ‘For Me the Children of Israel are servants’ (Vayikra 25:55).”

Rabbi Akiva responded, “I will give you a parable. A mortal king grew angry at his son. The king had his son bound in prison and ordered that no one give him food or drink. A certain man went and gave him food. When the king hears about this, how will he react? Won’t he send him presents? And we are called children, as it is written, ‘You are children of the Lord, your God’ (Devorim 14:1).”

It seems no one was nispoel from my vort. I’ll just go back to my cave.